all the hotels and resorts and all the military bases, you know, there's a writer i really like named steve erickson who once wrote that the two great contribution of the american civilization our annihilation and fun. [laughter] he was writing that about las vegas in a piece about, you know, all the old nuclear tests that were done in the nevada desert, but i think that metric applies to hawaii as well. but then on the other hand, it is still so much to often a sovereign independent country it once was. the language, even english speakers, people who take it don't speak hawaiian, words are peppered into normal talk if you're going to ask directions from someone, they would tell you to go malka r. mckay, not the towards the mounds or mckay towards the ocean. and it is such a singular place. and it still has so many vestiges of its singular culture that it is kind of lost in a way. that's why -- like i have a friend who he's a teacher and i was speaking to him and some of his colleagues, and is talking about something and it's butchering his name, and the pronunciation, and i made, i just ha